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obscurantism.noun
a practice of withholding information from the
public (governments concocting.policies
of subservience for control
of and less freedom for citizens - creeping communism); the policy of preventing
facts or full details of something from becoming known through control
of information distribution and media presentation
obscurant, obscurantist.nouns
a person or thing that obscures
obscure.adjective
not clear or distinct;
ambiguous;
hidden; dim; dark; murky
obscure applies to that which is perceived with
difficulty, either because it is veiled, perhaps by design – obscurantism
obscure,
obscurer,
obscurest.adjectives
not readily
understood or clearly expressed, mysterious, remote, secluded;
deficient
in light; dark; so faintly
perceptible
as to lack clear
delineation;
indistinct;
far from centers of human population (an obscure village); out of sight;
hidden (an obscure retreat); ambiguous
obscure, obscured,
obscuring,
obscures.transitive
verbs
to make dim or indistinct (smog obscured our view);
block; to conceal in obscurity;
hide
obscurely.adverb
obscureness.noun
obscurity.noun,.plural.obscurities
deficiency
or absence of light; darkness;
the quality or condition of being unknown
occur,
occurred,
occurring,
occurs.intransitive
verbs
to take place; come about; happen; to be found
to exist or appear (heavy rains occur during a summer monsoon); to come
to mind (the idea never occurred to me)
occurrence.noun
an event; incident;
a general word for anything that happens or takes place
ornithology.noun
the branch of zoology dealing with birds
ornithological.adjective
ornithologist.noun
a scientist in this branch of zoology
omen.noun
an occurrence or phenomenon
believed to portend a future event,
either good or bad
synonyms.portent,
sign, warning, premonition,
foreboding,
augury,
indication
ominous.adjective
threatening; containing a warning of something
evil or bad that will happen
synonyms.menacing,
sinister,
portentous,
threatening (ominous rumblings of discontent; ominous black clouds); inauspicious,
foreboding,
fateful, unpromising
ominously.adverb
ominousness.noun
opaque.adjective
impenetrable
by light; neither transparent
nor translucent
opaquely.adverb
opaqueness.noun
opacity.noun,.plural.opacities
the quality or state of being opaque;
something opaque; obscurity; impenetrability;
dullness of mind
oxide.noun
a binary (two parts; twofold) compound
of oxygen with a more electropositive element or group
oxidant.noun
a substance used as an oxidizing agent
oxidation.noun
the process of oxidizing
oxidize, oxidized,
oxidizing,
oxidizes-(or,
ise).transitive
verbs
to combine with oxygen; make into an oxide; to
make rusty
Chemistry.–.to
increase the positive charge or valence
of (an
element)
by removing electrons
oxidizable (or, isable)-adjective
oxidization (or,
isation),
oxidizer.nouns
oxidic.adjective
obtain, obtained,
obtaining,
obtains.transitive
verbs
to succeed in gaining possession of as the result
of something (astute planning resulted
in an enduring endeavor); acquire
intransitive verb use.to
be established, accepted, or customary;
to succeed
obtainable.adjective
obtainer.noun
obtuse.adjective
mentally slow or emotionally insensitive;
dull; stupid
obtuseness.noun
obtusely.adverb
obviate,
obviated,
obviating,
obviates-transitive
verbs
to do away with; to attempt to do away with; counter;
prevent; render unnecessary; to anticipate and dispose of effectively;
render unnecessary
obviation, obviator,
obviation-nouns
onslaught-noun
a violent attack
orient,
oriented,
orienting,
orients.transitive
verbs
to make familiar with or adjusted to facts, principles,
or a situation; to determine the bearings of; to focus (the content of
a story or film, for example) toward the concerns and interests of a specific
group; to locate, align or place in a particular relation to the points
of the compass (orient the swimming pool north and south), or to some reference
point
orientation-noun
the act of orienting or the state of being oriented
opinion.noun
a belief or conclusion held with confidence but
not substantiated by positive
knowledge or proof; what one thinks of something (medical opinion); aan
estimation of the merit of a person
or thing (has a low opinion of 'greedco's'); the prevailing
view (public opinion)
opine, opined,
opining,
opines.transitive
verbs
to hold or state as an opinion
origin.noun
the point at which something comes into existence
or from which it derives or is derived
(origin of humanity); the fact of originating; rise or derivation
Mathematics.-.the
point of intersection of coordinate.axes,
as in the Cartesian coordinate
system
originate, originated,
originating,
originates.verbs
transitive verb use.to
bring into being; create (Nikola Tesla
originated the system of free energy)
intransitive verb use.to
come into being; start; stem
origination.noun
originative.adjective
originatively.adverb
originator.noun
originally.adverb
with reference
to origin.(mankind
originally had no money); at first (what I had originally expected); in
a highly distinctive.manner.(interpreted
the flute solo most originally)
orbit.noun
a range
of activity, experience, or knowledge; a range of control or influence;
range; the path of a celestial
body or an artificial satellite as it revolves around another body; one
complete revolution of such a body; the path of a body in a field of force
surrounding another body, for example, the movement of an atomic.electron
in relation to a nucleus
orbit, orbited,
orbiting,
orbits-transitive
verb
to put into an orbit (orbit a satellite); to revolve
around, such as a center of attraction (the moon orbits Earth)
intransitive verb use.to
move in an orbit
orbitals.(atomic
orbitals are mathematical descriptions of where the electrons in an atom
{or molecule} are most likely to be found); "Experimental data has been
the
impetus
behind the creation and dismissal of physical models of the atom; Rutherford's
model, in which
electrons move around a tightly packed, positively charged
nucleus, successfully explained the results of scattering experiments,
but was unable to explain discrete.atomic.emission,
that is, why atoms emit only certain
wavelengths of light.
"Bohr began with Rutherford's model, but then postulated
further that electrons can only move in certain quantized
orbits; this model was able to explain certain qualities of discrete emission
for hydrogen,
but failed completely for other elements.
"Schrödinger's model, in which electrons are
described not by the paths they take but by the regions where they are
most likely to be found, can explain certain qualities of emission spectra
for all elements; however, further refinements of the model, made throughout
the 20th century, have been needed to explain all observable spectral phenomenon.
"Atomic orbitals are mathematical descriptions
of where the electrons in an atom (or molecule)
are most likely to be found. These descriptions are obtained by solving
an equation
known as the Schrödinger equation, which expresses our knowledge of
the atomic world. As the angular
momentum and energy of an electron increases, it tends to reside in
differently shaped orbitals. The orbitals corresponding to the three lowest
energy states are s, p, and d, respectively. A spatial
distribution of electrons occurs within these orbitals. Form is about spatial
structure.
"The fundamental nature of electrons prevents
more than two from ever being in the same orbital. The overall distribution
of electrons in an atom is the sum of many such compositions. This description
has been confirmed by many experiments in chemistry and physics,
including an actual picture of a p-orbital made by a Scanning Tunneling
Microscope."."Models
of the Atom," Microsoft® Encarta® Encyclopedia 99
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